The East is a Podcast

Arash Davari is Assistant Professor of Politics at Whitman College. Yousef Baker is Assistant Professor of International Studies at California State University, Long Beach.   Please consider  supporting  the show created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) eastisapodcast@gmail.com www.eastpodcast.com

*Please forgive the poor sound quality* Pouya Alimagham  is a historian of the modern Middle East based at MIT. Please consider  supporting  theshow created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) eastisapodcast@gmail.com www.eastpodcast.com

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*Extremely Graphic*   Fisk on his "From Beirut to Bosnia"  documentary : "Back in 1993, I made a 3 part documentary film for the Discovery Channel in the United States, and also for Channel 4 in Britain. It was called Beirut to Bosnia and it attempted to find out why an increasing number of Muslims had come to hate the West. Indeed, the title was "Why Muslims Have Come to Hate the West." We filmed...

C.L.R. James and Studs Terkel discuss the  Black Jacobins  on  WFMT Chicago (1970).    

  *Unlocked from behind the paywall*    Patrick Higgins is a Ph. D candidate in the Department of History at the University of Houston.     Please support the show.  I do this show alone with no sponsorships or any kind of employment. If you can spare a few bucks a month, you can gain access to the bonus content. https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast      

Alina Sajed is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at McMaster University.   Timothy Seidel is Assistant Professor in the Center for Justice & Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University. Check out their co-edited issue of Interventions Please consider  supporting  the show created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) eastisapodcast@gmail.com www.eastpodcast.com      

Albert Brent Chase is a member of the Diné (Navajo) nation and leader of the Pollen Trail Dancers.  Audio on the "Long Walk" taken from this video

David Puckett is a human being currently incarcerated by the US state. Through his pen pal, he passes a long a message about life in the land of the free. You can write David personally (he welcomes any letter) or send him books (preferably Sci-Fi/Fantasy). He passes on these books to other incarcerated human beings.  His address is David Puckett #1081033 Polunsky Unit 3872 FM 3505 Livingston, TX...

Shervin Malekzadeh is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Colgate University where he is completing a book manuscript on post-revolutionary schooling in Iran from the perspective of ordinary families and local officials tasked with educating "the New Islamic Citizen."  Check out the article

Hussein Kesvani  is UK/Europe editor with Mel Magazine. He is the author of  Follow Me, Akhi: The Online World of British Muslims.   Please consider  supporting  the show created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) eastisapodcast@gmail.com www.eastpodcast.com

I recently went on the podcast Trashfuture and spoke about the Iran invasion plans floated by the B-team. I hope you enjoy the short extract! The entire episode is available from Trashfuture's main feed.  

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Neda Maghbouleh is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. She is Principal Investigator and lead researcher of the  RISE (Refugee Integration, Stress, and Equity) Team.   Please consider  supporting  the show created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) eastisapodcast@gmail.com www.eastpodcast.com

Hamdi Ulukaya is the CEO of Chobani. Audio taken from this and this video.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb is author of Game Misconduct: Injury, Fandom, and the Business of Sport (Fernwood Publishing) and co-author of Out of Left Field: Social Inequality and Sports (with Gamal Abdel-Shehid). He is a Lecturing Fellow at Duke University, where he teaches on social inequality and sports.   Please consider  supporting  the show created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) eastisapodcast@gmai...

Tamara Nassar  is an assistant editor at The Electronic Intifada  Please consider  supporting  the show created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) eastisapodcast@gmail.com www.eastpodcast.com

Nasser Arrabyee is a Yemeni Journalist, filmmaker, and founding  Director of Yemen Alaan (Yemen Now) in Sanaa. Please consider  supporting  the show created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) eastisapodcast@gmail.com www.eastpodcast.com  

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Ali Latifi is a journalist based in Kabul. Please consider  supporting  the show created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) eastisapodcast@gmail.com www.eastpodcast.com  

Unlocked from behind the paywall! A conversation with my friend and comrade Nasser Mufti on the lingering questions of nationalism.    Please consider  supporting  the show created by Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) eastisapodcast@gmail.com www.eastpodcast.com

From the archives of Alternative Views  "TV/film producer-director Chris Thomas brings with him an insightful documentary which he made showing the nature and extent of racism on English television, using clips from documentaries, panel discussions, interviews and entertainment programs. The program, which was shown on the BBC's public access hour, created a furor, resulting in threats of lawsuits...

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Another very special episode produced by three students at Whitman College as part of Arash Davari's Middle East Politics course. This episode explores the strange case of "good immigrant" Mohamed Salah.  Thank you to Arash Davari and Whitman's Politics Department for their support of this experimental project. If you are an educator and want to try teaching your students about podcasting, please...